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The Welsh government is in talks to nationalise Cardiff airport after losing patience with a slump in passenger numbers under the ownership of Abertis, of Spain.

The First Minister, Carwyn Jones, yesterday announced that his Labour administration was in talks to buy the airport, with a view to signing up an alternative private sector operator to run it. “We need to secure the future of Wales’s only international airport,” he said. “It’s losing money at the moment but we’ve had interest from several potential operators.”

Cardiff is run by TBI, a Spanish-owned operator that also controls Luton and Belfast international